Thursday, March 13, 2014

Rafael Chandler's Lusus Naturae Kickstarter Now Live!

Rafael Chandler is Kickstarting his second book of monsters here! He did the Teratic Tome, doncha know, and he wants to make the follow-up fancier. And this time, he's using the LotFP rules as his baseline.

Now Rafael was part of the Ref book campaign, and in fact just turned
the last of his monsters in yesterday. You might wonder how that bunch differs
from this bunch.

Rafael tells me he had a lot of the monsters for his new book conceived
and prepared before he started in on the Ref book job. Lusus Naturae
monsters tend to engage human sin. They are new races and breeds, as
well as new variants of familiar races and monsters. You know, like the
Teratic Tome.

His instructions for the Ref book were to use his style within 'canon'
LotFP parameters: All the monsters are unique entities, either from
another dimension/outer space or directly affected/possessed/infected by
such an entity.

Now Lusus Naturae is going to be "LotFP native." Why, you may ask, is
this one LotFP and his last one was for OSRIC? My fault. He was all
ready to make the last one "LotFP native," but I basically talked him
out of it because of how things like variant halflings and owlbears
weren't really "LotFP."

Yes, I'm an idiot. Marketing FAIL.

But I got better. This is Rafael's project, LotFP isn't involved in any
way shape or form. Not financing, order fulfilling, content, ANYTHING.
Only this time, I'm quite happy for him to put his spin on how he thinks
monsters can be for LotFP, without my worrying that "third party"
releases need to adhere to some personal first-party line.